TEAM REPORTS

DodgeCounty – Hospital Christmas party, Disaster
training at MidlandCollege and Awards banquet; will be doing
traffic control tomorrow for a parade and security for band at Macho Joes.July 13&14 will be John C Fremont days
and Thomas the Train will be here in July also.

Heartland – quite winter, meet with new Douglas County Emergency
Management Director, Paul Johnson; Information System – Code Spear will
automatic notify cell, email, home phone and pagers in the event of an
emergency.Training class for weather.

Pawnee – working on council items.

DISTRICT REPORTS

District One- Civil air patrol will work with REACT and we can
help them.Civil Air Patrol is made up
of Districts, Wings and Squadrons.Contact wing or local squadron if joint help is needed.Brian has the information on how to contact
them.

Look for copy of MOU; State
of NE Civil Air Patrol this region.

District Two- Blue River will need to use golf cart and letter
sign for Homestead Days, getting ready for Spring weather and will be doing
bingo and security for street dance during Homestead days.

DistrictThree-HamiltonCounty did some projects with Grand Island; Grand Island will be having their craft shows in 2008, team had their annual
Christmas party and discussed Sky Warn with new Hall County Emergency
Management Director.

District Four- no teams or coordinator

OLD BUSINESS

Capabilities list still
needed from teams.Google Spreadsheet is
real time on the internet and Kevin is looking into putting the capabilities
list on this site.VOAD would like to
have a broad Capabilities list for REACT.

Lighted Sign – New letters
have arrived and look very nice.Also
need to make or buy a trailer for the sign to be transported with.

Mobil Repeater has arrived; Council
has approved the purchase of UHF adapters (2) and a duplexer.Kevin will be ordering the duplexer.

Fundraiser – raffle drawing, state wide raffle, teams
need to get local donations.The council
does not require a license to hold the raffle; the grand prize will be a Navigation
system.Kevin will print raffle ticket
on his computer.The raffle should have
at least 10 nice prizes along with the grand prize.Tickets will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00;
drawing will be at Spring Conference in Lincoln and 500 tickets will be made up to sell.

Motion by
Jenny Jacobson, Secretary to purchase a Tom Tom Navigational system for $200.

Spring Conference will be April 19 at USA Steak Buffet, in Lincoln
from 9-5p.m. and the cost will be
$15.00 per person and the Saline County Emergency Management Director will be
giving a presentation, Communication round table.

NEW BUSINESS

Motion to
get notepads with logo for under $50.00 – Jenny Jacobson, Secretary

2nd
by Carrie Kasper, TreasurerAll in
favor

VOAD will have a table at State Fair; council dues for VOAD
membership were paid.

GOOD OF THE COUNCIL

BlueRiver
will have a table set up to sell raffle tickets and show what REACT is about at
the SalineCounty
weather training.

Fall Conference will be October 11, 2008; want to have it out by or in Grand
Island.Rachael
will check with the Lincoln Manor restaurant in Central City.Carrie will check about having it in Columbus
at Sapp Brothers or Stack n Steak restaurant.

August campout will be August 23 at Branched Oak, SouthShore campground.